SIERRA VALLEY DECREE (CALIFORNIA-NEVADA)

Adjudication (1958) allowing the Sierra Valley Water Company to divert a portion of the Little Truckee River in California into Webber Creek for irrigation purposes in the Sierra Valley in the Feather River Basin. The maximum allowable diversion is 60 cubic feet per second (cfs), averaging approximately 5,700 acre-feet (AF) per year (although as a supplemental water source, diversions typically vary between 1,500 AF and 10,000 AF per year). Waters may be diverted only between March 15th and September 30th of each year. The Priority Date of this water right was set at 1870.